Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1916 — Page 4

1 m COOHTY DEMIT F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY Long Distance Telephones Office 316 Residence 811 Entered as Second-Class Mall Matter June 8, 1908, at the postoffice at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the Act of March ». 1879. Published Wednesday and Saturday. WEDNESDAY, OCT. 11, 1916.

TO LET WELL ENOUGH ALONE

A reporter for The Democrat was strolling about the city last Sunday when we chanced to meet a person similarly employed. A conversation ■was started and before long the question of politics was reached. The gentleman did not know us, nor did we know him, and without any solicitation whatsoever he said that for the past twenty years he had voted nothing but the Prohibition ticket; that he felt he should do so again this year, but the situation was so critical and President Wilson had proven himself so amply competent that he felt it to be the duty of every loyal American to stand by him and vote to retain him In the White House, which he intended to do. And where you will find one person who announces his intentions, you will find a great many more ■who do not. This election is going to be decided by the great mass of thinking voters, who are not going about proclaiming their thoughts and who are not to be misled by the office-hungry Republicans. The American people are not anxious for a change in administration; they are not to be influenced by assertions of “what will happen when the war ends.’’ This country and its people were never more prosperous or contented, and they are not asking for a change. Chicago Republican politicians declare, says the Chicago Sunday Herald, that Hughes and Fairbanks are lagging far behind the Illinois state ticket, and say that estimates of some of the most seasoned warhorses downstate were that the national ticket may run 75,000 to 100,000 votes behind the state ticket. ■ ■ - ■■

GERMAN U-BOAT NEAR U. S.

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lies lost no time in shifting their course. Those that were following what is known as the outside course, turned to the inside course, that Would bring them closer to American land. The passenger steamer Stephano which plied regularly between New York and St. Johns, N. F,, was bound west and was due off Nantucket tomorrow morning. When her British commander received his warning he shifted his course to bring his vessel within the inside lane. The sensation created Saturday ■when the U-5 3 quietly slipped into Newport harbor and as quietly slipped away three hours later was less than the shock m shipping circles when wireless reports of submarine attacks began to come into the naval radio stations just before noon Sunday. Within a few minutes the air was literally charged with electricity as wireless messages of warning were broadcasted along the coast. Newport, Rhode Island, October 9.—Rear Admiral Albert (’.leaves, commander of the destroyer flotilla, announced today that he had obtained the names of approximately 220 persons, including thirty-three women and ten children, rescued from five of the six steamers known to have been torpedoed yesterday by a German submarine. This list did not take into Account the crew of the British steamer Kingston which is still missing. All hands had been saved, the admiral said, from the steamers West Point, Strathdene, Bloomersdljk, Christian Knudson and Stephano, the latter a passenger ship plying between New York and St. Johns, Newfoundland. Several of the torpedo boat destroyers reported that they were still searching for the Kingston crew, supposed to be adrift in lifeboats south of Nan-

WEATHER FOR SATURDAY. FAIR AND SLIGHTLY W / /1

tucket lightship. Today the destroyers were cruising within a radius of thirty miles of the lightship in the hope of picking up the missing boats. Rear Admiral Knight reported tonight that, although the American destroyer flotilla was continuing its search for the missing crew of the British steamer Kingston, he thought it likely they had been picked up by some east bound merchantman, which had taken them out to sea without reporting because of fear that use of her wireless would endanger her. Although the captain of the lightship at Boston reasserted that three submarines had sunk nine steamers, the names of three of the destroyed ships had not been determined. Neither had any of the subs rise been positively identified, although opinion was almost unanimous among naval and shipping men that one of them was the U-53, which called at Newport Saturday, and passengers landed from the Red Cross liner Stephano quoted members of the crew of that steamer as having been emphatic in their statements that the submarine which sank the Stephano was marked U-61. Early in the day several of the fleet of United States destroyers which went to the rescue of the men, women and children set afloat in open boats, brought into Newport the passengers and crew of the Stephano. They also gave over to the welcoming care of the officers of the naval training station at Newport the crews of the British steamers Strathdene and West Point, the Dutch steamer Bloomeradijk and Norwegian Christian Knudsen. The warships then returned to assist in the search for other boats. The calmness of the sea, which made easy the transfer of passengers and crews throughout the period of the submarine operations, continued today. The temperature also was moderate. Under these conditions it was realized that seamen adrift in open boats would suffer little discomfort. * A prolonged stay in the boats, however, might lead to hardship from shortage of food and water.

The movements of three British cruisers, which arrived in the vicinity, of the raids early today, were not further reported. It was supposed they were making a thorough sweep of waters in which the Germans had been active in the hope of capturing or sinking one of the submarines. Long Branch, New Jersey, October 9.—Secretary Lansing, it was announced today, will come here tomorrow for a conference with President Wilson concerning German submarine raids off the American coast. Mr. Lansing is expected to remain over night at the President’s summer residence. The announcement, that the secretary of state would confer -with the President confirmed the impression gained here earlier in the day that the American government considered the attacks on vessels off the American coast by German submarine as fraught with grave possibilities. At the same time it was made clear that there is nothing in the reports so far received to show that international law or the earlier promises of Germany have been violated. ( oncern over the situation centered chiefly about the possibility of what might happen if the submarine attacks are continued. The position of the American government and its determination to make a full investigation before acting was made clear in the following statement given out by the President: “The government will of course first inform itself as to all the facts that there may be no doubt or mistake as far as they are concerned. The country may rest assured that the German government will be held to the Complete fulfillment of its promises to the government of the United States. I have no right now to question its willingness to fulfill them.”

Here Is the Real Thing, Mr. Farmer. If you don’t believe it take a chance. Expenses—telephones, lights, insurance, their own salary, clerk hire, rent is quite a large Item with some competitors. It takes a hard blow to RING THE BELL, I HAVE THE BUGGIES The best farm wagon on earth for light running and durability. It’s the Studebaker.— C. A. ROBERTS, Rensselaer, Ind., Agent. I quote you a spot cash price on all goods I sell. The man who whispers down a well About the goods has to sell, Won’t reap the golden, gleaming dollars Like one who climbs a tree and hollers. Well, I am hollering. O. A. ROBERTS. “Subscribe for The Democrat.

MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF WORLD

BIG HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK CUT TO LAST ANALYSIS. DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN ITEMS Kernels Culled From Events of Moment in All Parts of the World— Of Interest to All tho People Everywhere. European War News A fresh Russian defeat in Volhynla Tuesday, west of Luisk, was announced by the German war office at Berlin. “Thousands of dead were left on the battlefield,” the statement said. ’ • * • Serbians have crossed the Toherna river and defeated the adversary on the Nize mountain in Serbia, and also captured the Kessali railroad station, according to advices received at Paris. The Serbian territory recaptured now embraces 89 square miles including seven towns. • • ♦ German submarines between September 20 and 29 sank in the North sea, and the English channel 35 hostile vessels with a total tonnage of 14,000, the Overseas News agency announced at Berlin. “As the result of an encircling attack,” the German war office announced at Berlin, “Roumanian forces which had crossed the Danube near Rjshove, south of Bucharest, withdrew in a hasty flight.” ♦• * - Between July 1, the opening of the Somme battle, and the end of September, the British forces on that front took 26,735 prisoners. They engaged in that period 38 German divisions and forced 29 of them to withdraw from the battle exhausted or shattered. These results were announced in a summary of the Somme operations hy Sir Douglas Haig, given out by the Official Press bureau in London. b » * * The Bulgarians have abandoned several positions in the Starkov, Grob and Brod river regions, says a Paris dispatch. The entente allies occupied Sovich, Petorak, Verveni and Jenikoi, northeast of Florina. * • * The capture of 5.000 soldiers, 600 of them Germans, during fighting in Galicia, was reported by the war office at Petrograd. * * * Rome reports that, as a result of the Roumanian invasion of Bulgaria, Field Marshal von Mackensen, commanding the German-Bulgar-Turkish army, invading Dobrudja, has ordered the evacuation of the fortresses of Turtukal and Silistria on the Danube. ♦ ♦ * The following official statement dated September 30, was received at Berlin: ‘■Russian forces in Persia, camping south of Sakiz, 50 kilometers east of Saudshbulsk, were attacked and routed by the Turks September 27.” "* • * The Roumanian army in the Dobrudja has forced a crossing of the Danube south of Bucharest, invading Bulgaria for the first time, according to an admission made by the German war office at Berlin. .... * • • Ten Zeppelins took part in Sunday night’s raid over England. Except for part of the envelope there is left hardly a vestige recognizable as part of tho huge airship which was brought down near Potter’s Bar. The crew was incinerated. ♦ • * Domestic The United States merchant marine lost one of its best freighters when the Norwegian flag was hoisted on the steamship Honolulan at Newport News, Va. The ship was bought from the American-Hawaiian line by Ove Lentoft, Bergen, Norway, for about $2,000,000. A negro woman named Connelly, whose son is charged with killing a white farmer after a quarrel in which she took part, was taken from the jail at Leary, Ga., and lynched. • * * Henry Ford, automobile manufacturer and peace advocate, reiterated to President Wilson at a conference at Shadow Lawn, N. J., that he was supporting him for re-election. • • • Five were killed and fifty were injured at Cleveland, 0., when the north span of the West Third street bridge collapsed under the weight of two heavily loaded street cars. They met head-on before the bridge collapsed. * • • Clarence Meyers, twenty-three years old, confessed at Grand Rapids, Mich., that he murdered William Travis, a well-to-do farmer living near Fremont, Mich., last October, to make clear the way for his marriage to Travis’ wife. • • • Tacit admission of the failure of the ‘general” sympathetic strike lu New York in behalf of the striking street car men was made in a report to a conference of labor leaders which diecussed the general situation.

Michigan’s mail-order murderer wqs taken to Jackson prison to spend the remainder of his life. Scott Maussell of Mancelona, Mich.,, is his name, although he was arrested as James C. Allerton. Maussell has confessed at Grand Rapids, that he killed Mrs. Anna St. John of Elmira, N. Y., and Westboro, Wis., aged fifty-five. • * * Two hundred men fought all day at Phelps, Wis., in a successful attempt to save the town from destruction by fire which burned the lumber mills. The loss is estimated at $300,000. ♦ ♦ ♦ Mrs. Helen Morton Bayly, daughter of Mark Morton, the Wheaton and Lake Forest (Ill.) millionaire, won her suit for divorce from Roger Bayly, the well-known Virginia horseman, to whom she was married in June, 1914. The charge she made was that of desertion. ♦ • • Daniel G. Reid, New York millionaire, who has been connected with a Richmond (Ind.) bank, resigned as vice president and director to comply with the Clayton act, which prohibits a person from being officer or director of more than one national bank. Reid i already is connected with three New York banks. * * * The entire business section and many fine residences of Mendon, Mich., were completely destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $400,000. * * * Father Scheutz was killed and Bishop Dunne and Father Shannon seriously injured in an automobile wreck near Princeville, 111. ♦ * ♦ Aviator Lawrence Sperry of New York was found floating on the sea off Boston after a thrilling night. He started on a flight from Lynn late in the afternoon. He ran out of gasoline, and was compelled to “land” on the water. A motorboat came to his assistance. A hunt for Lorine Merriman, nine years old, kidnaped from the home of his aunt, Mrs. Lulu Overman, at Indianapolis four years ago, ended when the girl was returned to Indianapolis from Grand Forks, N. D. * » » Edward A. Leet of New York, who pleaded guilty a week ago to blackmail, was sentenced to a term of from four to eight years in Sing Sing. « • • Sporting There is joy in Brooklyn, for the Robins have captured the National league pennant. Brooklyn clinched the flag by defeating, the Giants, 9 to 6, at Brooklyn, and will clash with the Boston Red Sox for the championship of the world. • * • Washington The special war department board at Washington which investigated military aeronautics reported that its inquiry not only failed entirely to substantiate allegations of inefficiency on the part of army officers but clearly established that development of this branch of the service “is being conducted with energy and foresight.” • * • Politics Former Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft shook hands according to schedule at the Union League club in New York. • ♦ * For the first time in the history of American politics, 200 women started on a country-wide campaign tour for a presidential candidate. They left New York on a special train for San Francisco to stump the country for Charles E. Hughes. Mexican War News Strong protest has been made to the state department at Washington by the British and French embassies against the action of the Carranza government in Mexico in seizing the assets of British and French banking institutions in the Mexican capital. Foreign Gen. Emilano Chamorro, until recently minister to the United tSates, has been elected president of Nicaragua.

* * * Field Marshal Terauchi has been appointed by the emperor to succeed Count Okuma as premier of Japan, it was announced at Tokyo. * * * Viscount Bryce of Dechmont, former ambassador at Washington, addressing the Congregational union at Birmingham, England, decried the spirit of hate against the Germans and the talk of a lasting trade war. In conclusion he advocated a league to restrain aggression and compel arbitration. ♦ ♦ * A mass meeting held at Frankfort adopted a resolution in favor of early peace, says an Amsterdam dispatch to London. • • » Personal Gen. Hugh L. Scott, chief of staff of the army, is confined in Walter Reed army hospital at Washington suffering from an attack of indigestion. His condition is not regarded as dangerous. General Scott is sixty-three years old. • Maj. William Warner, Missouri statesman and former United States senator, died at Kansas City, Mo.

Mortgage - Loans t TO INVESTORS— We have for sale a carefully selected list of | Mortgage Loans and other securities which will yield the highest rate of income that can be expected from conserva- ? tive investments. * TO BORROWERS— We are prepared to consider applications for i Mortgage Loans in any amount, and have every facility for ; furnishing money on short notice, and on reasonable terms, t WILLIAMS DEAN | ODD FELLOWS BUILDING | Telephone No. 31 Rensselaer, Indiana, 1

MORE TROOPS COMING HOME

General Funston Designates Units of State Militia to Be Relieved of Duty. San Antonio, Tex., Oct. 6—The following state troops were designated to go back by General Funston: New York, First Battalion of Engineers and Field Hospital No. 1; Massachusetts, Fifth, Eighth and Ninth infantry ; one squadron of cavalry, less one troop, and one signal battalion, less one company; Connecticut Second infantry, two troops of cavalry, field hospital ambulance company; Illinois, one squadron and two troops of the First cavalry; Maryland, Brigade headquarters of the First Maryland, Second Field Hospital and Company A, of the engineers; Missouri, one signal company; California, Second and Seventh infantry brigade headquarters; the Nogales Signal company, Ambulance company; Field hospital company, one squadron of cavalry; Kansas, Second infantry; District of Columbia, Field hospital.

CARS OF DYNAMITE BLOW UP

Explosion at Grafton, 111., Powder Mill Kills Three Men and Injures Several Others. Grafton, Hl., Oct. 6. —Three men were killed and several were injured seriously when three cars of dynamite exploded at the mill of the Illinois Powder company here. The dead are: Superintendent Peterson and two workmen named Goodridge and Dilling. The powder mill was wrecked and the fronts of several buildings were shattered.

Send Germans Home. London, Oct. G. —Ten thousand Germans from Ghent, Belgium, are being sent to their homes, says a Central News dispatch from Amsterdam. Protect Your Buildings, ;rom Lightning By having them properly nodded Sixteen years experience in the business and never have had a building damaged from lightning that I nodded. Best and heaviest rods used. Call and see me or phone 135 or 568.—F. A. BICKNELL, Rensselaer, Indiana. ts When ready to start fall housecleaning don’t forget that The Democrat sells a big armful of old papers for only five cents.

[Under this head notices will be published for 1-cent-a-word for the firs| insertion, 1-2-cent-per-word for each additional 'nsertion. To save book-keeping cash should be sent with notice. No notice accepted for less than twenty-five cents, but short notices coming within the above rate, will be two or more times—as the case may be —for 26 cents. Where replies are sent in The Democrat’s care, postage will be charged for forwarding such replies to the advertiser.] FOR SALE For Sale—Bay driving mare, 6 years old, good stepper.—M. I. ADAMS & SON, Rensselaer. o-15 Michigan Land—For particulars see or address D. L. HALSTEAD, Rensselaer, Ind., R-3. o-30 For Sale—Slabs for sale at saw mill of JOHN ZELLERS, at Carr Bros. farm. o-15 For Sale—My residence property on Forest street. —MRS. CLARA COEN. ts

For Sale—Good re-cleaned timothy seed, $3 per bushel, at RENSSELAER GARAGE. ts For Sale or Rent—A new 4-room cottage on a fine lot, with considerable fruit, located in Kniman.— ROBERT MICHAL, Kniman, Ind. ts For Sale—lo head of pure bred male spotted Poland Chinas, wt. 100 lbs. Also a few sows, gilts, same wt.—J. M.- YEOMAN, Rensselaer, R-3. Phone 915-D. 0 -12 For Sale—Recleaned timothy seed, $2.50 'per bushel.. Also some horses; cheap. Will take good bankable note or will trade for cattle.— JOSEPH TRULLEY, Rensselaer, Ind. Phone 916-G. o-15 For Sale—9-room modern house, hot water heat, electric light, city water, etc.; house is nearly new. Almost five acres of ground with house, and has lots of fruit; located three blocks from court house, on improved street. Am offering property for sale on account of poor health.—MßS. A. GANGLOFF. n-10 For Sale—Six-room house, he-1 tween depot and court house, sl,-

200; SSOO down. Seven-room-house two blocks of court house, trade for farm or sell on monthly payments. SIO,OOO in mortgage notes and property. Will trade any or all for farm and assume. Fine farm, mile from court, to sell at right price with ten per cent of purchase price down and remainder ten years. Why rent when you can buy a farm this way?—GEORGE F. MEYERS. tt For Sale— One base burner, one range, dining room tables and chairs, three iron beds and springs, dressers and rugs. Call at VAN R. • GRANT’S residence ts For Sale— Three houses of five and six rooms; in good condition and well locate!. Can oe sold on monthly payment plan. Also small farm, with fair improvements; on stone road and well located; small payment down and balance in annual payments.—AßTHUß H. HOPKINS. ts For Sale—Red, white or bur oak lumber, sawed to any dimension desired, $lB per thousand for all building material; 4 miles west es Rensselaer, on county, farm road.— A. M. YEOMAN, Rensselaer, R-3, phone 87-G, Mt. Ayr. ts For Sale— Bo-acre farm, three miles north and one mile east of Mt. Ayr, good improvements, good apple and peach orchard and other small fruits; 4 acres timber, remainder in cultivation. Good soil. —WILLIAM COATNEY, Fair Oaks, Indiana, R. F. D. o-12

For Sale— One of the best located residence properties in Rensselaer, 75x300 feet, corner lot fronting on two improved streets; good two-story house, with cistern, drilled well, bath, barn and other out-buildings, etc. Ground alone is worth price asked for entire property. Terms if desired. For farther particulars call or address B. care THE DEMOCRAT. For Salo—New York dairy farm of 135 acres, % mile from small town with stores, postoffice, school, church, cheese factory, etc. Has lots of good buildings, including good large house newly shingled, big basement barn 40x60, hop house, wagon house and other buildings all in good repair; is well watered, has maple sugar grove and other timber. Owner will throw in sugarmaking utensils and sell the farm for $3,000. Fourteen cows and other stock now kept on farm, but 20 to 25 cows can easily be kept there. This is a dandy improved farm, lies well and is dirt cheap at the price offered. For further information address E. D. BABCOCK, Maple Valley, Otsego County, N. Y.

WANTED Wanted to Rent—Five or sixroom cottage, centrally located, with lights and city water. —THE DEMOCRAT. ts Under Agents Wanted—Catholic, to introduce Benziger’s Magazine, America’s greatest illustrated Catholic family monthly. Excellent premium feature. High commission —BENZIGER BROTHERS, 36 Barclay St., New York. o-10 M anted Cheap typewriter, in good condition.—THE DEMOCRAT. FOR RENT To Rent—Eight-room house with city water, electric lights, etc.; 3y 2 blocks from court house, in good neighborhood. Enquire at THE DEMOCRAT OFFICE. ts FOUND Found—Physician’s medicine case in front of the E. S. Rhoads residence. May be recovered at The Democrat office by paying for thia advertisement. Found— 1916 auto license number. Owner may have same by calling at DEMOCRAT office and paying 25c for this ad.

Found— North of Rensselaer, near Aix, recently, Illinois auto license number 72447.—Ca1l at DEMOCRAT OFFICE. MISCELLANEOUS ’ Storage Room—For household goods and other light weight personal effects. Large, dry quarters, and will take goods for storage by month or year,—THE DEMOCRAT. FINANCIAL Money to Loan— 5 per cent farm loans.—JOHN A, DUNLAP. ts Mutual Insurance— Fire and llght”lns- .l lso state cyclone. Inquire oi M. I. ADAMS, phone 533-L. ■■ Farm Loans—We can procure you a five-year loan on your farm at 5 per cent Can loan as high as 50 per cent of the value of any good farm. No delay in getting the money after & U SON ap ’ proved -~ CHAS - J- DEAN * Farm Loans—Money to loan on farm property in any sums ud to SIO,OOO.—E. P. HONAN. I I fl HIP Uvl 111 U Without Chargee fer H Making or Recording Instruments. W. BL PARKINSON